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News

Letters from readers.

Last week, Mayor Bill Purcell tapped a new deputy mayor and, as it happens, I’m married to him.

“The black caucus started several decades ago, and I think it’s been a longstanding practice, just like the women’s caucus is the same way.”

For the XLIst time in XLI years, this year’s Super Bowl will feature teams owned by rich white people.

By most accounts, Candace McIntyre is the kind of daughter who would be any parents’ pride and joy.

The Jowers family basset hound, Rufus, joined up with the rest of us Jowerses about four years ago. He was a free-ranging farm dog in deep trouble.

A report of a “dead body in the back of a truck with his legs hanging out” turned out to be a man napping in the parking lot after throwing back a few too many.

Sometimes Sherrilyn Kenyon’s fans arrive at her readings costumed as one of her most popular characters, Simi, a feisty immortal with the bearing of a spoiled teenager, a passion for shopping on QVC and a vampire-chic look—think black leather and vinyl, cute horns, bat wings.

Dear Mexican: How do Mexicans get such ridiculous nicknames from seemingly normal names? For instance, José becomes Chepe, Eduardo is Lalo, Gabriel becomes Gabi, and Guillermo devolves into Memo.

Music

“This weather feels balmy to us,” singer-songwriter Luke Doucet says from his Nashville home.

Hey local clubs, get together and decide: you gonna be on regular time, rock time or The End time?

The John McMurry side of Webb Wilder—that is, the guy he is when not onstage—emerged the other day over the phone as he complained about going to the dentist.

After four albums of exceptional, if introspective, folk-pop musings, it’s something of a shock to find Erin McKeown turning her attention to jazz gems and standards of the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s.

You can’t argue with pianist Craig Nies’ musical pedigree. A longtime professor at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music, Nies attended the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he studied with the eminent piano virtuoso Mieczyslaw Horszowski.

William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet has probably inspired more spin-offs and rip-offs than any other theatrical work.

Restaurants

Every morning around 11 a.m., Rodney Shepard and the three chefs on his crew slip out from their kitchen in the Kroger Chef Shop to handpick groceries from throughout the supermarket.

T here’s good news for anyone who ever drove across town on a lazy Sunday to enjoy a basket of fish tacos only to find Baja Burrito closed.

Movies

Even by the lacerating standards of recent Sundance docs Why We Fight and Iraq in Fragments, the nonfiction at this year’s fest felt, well, real—alarmingly so.

This week in local theaters

We all know about the cathartic power of blues music, but until the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, which wrapped last weekend, who knew that it could serve as a cure-all for everything from nymphomania to childhood sexual abuse?

Arts and Culture

Bob and Sean O’Connell’s GroundWorks Theatre continues to push the boundaries of indigenous Nashville theater.

Let’s go ahead and acknowledge the obvious: Nancy French’s A Red State of Mind: How a Catfish Queen Reject Became a Liberty Belle is in no way aiming for subtlety in the category of What Should I Title My First Book?

Rappers like to brag about coming up the hard way, but few have a history to rival that of Chris Palko, a.k.a. Cage. The last time he saw his heroin-addicted father, Cage was 8, and dad was pointing a shotgun at the family during a standoff with state troopers.

Old Archives

Scenecast Episode 65 has been engineered as the perfect alternative soundtrack to Super Bowl XLI and its warm-'n'-fuzzy PETA-friendly lineup.

This is the new Nashville Clothing Company on West End Avenue. While the store grew out of the band merch website zambooie.com, NCC caters to more than just Music Row tastes.

Mastodon guitarist Bill Kelliher sounds remarkably unaffected for a man whose musical career has, in just five months, gone from mildly successful to completely bananas.

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